Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [coord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , Bowyer 's and Southgate 's boots were wet and so leather would swell a little . |
| 2 | At least previous populists like Julie Burchill and the Swells were funny and obviously masochists . |
| 3 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 4 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 5 | Lots of people wanted to know how Christians were Socialist and how Socialists were Christian . |
| 6 | According to the Aasociation of North Western House Builders , recent interest rate reductions were welcome but further action was needed to prevent additional house repossessions to encourage house moves and create employment in the construction industry . |
| 7 | The four double blind challenges that were done were negative and only 30% maintained remission for longer than 12 months indicating no influence of elimination diets on the duration of remission . |
| 8 | There were fifteen or so others present , many of them Privy Councillors , all of considerable party or national weight . |
| 9 | But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life . |
| 10 | But marine biologist and shark specialist Richard Fitzpatrick , of Oceanworld marine park , Sydney , said the two attacks were coincidental and not part of an emerging trend . |
| 11 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |
| 12 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 13 | Our cover was terrific and neither Scotland Yard bodyguard had a chance of spotting us . |
| 14 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 15 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 16 | Brighton was better but then Graf was playing . |
| 17 | Most of it was helpful and extremely kind . ’ |
| 18 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 19 | LIKE the Royal Academy of Arts , Denis Serjeant , its Surveyor , was brilliant and mildly maverick . |
| 20 | The national insurance scheme , on the other hand , was contributory but not means tested . |
| 21 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 22 | The roller-coaster cliff-top walk was tiring but both Vanessa and I were spurred on as we approached the final climb up Golden Cap . |
| 23 | That 's what I did when Ann was small But then Jerry was n't interested in shopping anyway . |
| 24 | The constitution contained a great deal that was familiar but also differences . |
| 25 | The judge had to ensure that the trial was fair and thus evidence should only be excluded if necessary to ensure that fairness , that is if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect . |
| 26 | It was nationalist and virulently anticommunist . |
| 27 | In order to get the best results from the new seeds , technology in the form of machinery , chemical products and fertilisers , was necessary and therefore capital was required to purchase these . |
| 28 | Jana contended that the Phoenician empire was Arab and therefore Venice was once part of a Pan-Arab civilisation , not to mention the other claim that many Venetians have Arab roots from ninth-century traders . |